In progress Photostory 1/10 : Little things are big business in more ways than one at Microsystems International Limited, near Ottawa, Ontario. Concerned with designing, developing and producing a variety of extremely miniaturized electronic components for the technological wonderworld destined to follow man's first footprints on the moon, this company's innovations also lie in the equally-important field of social relations. As busy as the company is with it novel research methods and manufacturing processes, (the plant's daily use of three and a half pounds of polycrystalline silicon has a potential yield of 7,000,000 microcircuits) its management takes as much interest in people. Perhaps, because their working in making solid state devices for communications, computers, rocketships, industrial robots and other soon-to-be-realized wonders is helping speed society to new ways of life, it is natural that the company's overall concept should also include the individual's place in what might be considered as awesome future environment. Philosophies apart, the fact is that at Microsystems International, where the production staff, via high-power microscopes, enter each day into a meticulous and critical invisible world where they manipulate delicate instruments and gossamer components, there is a department of social justice. And this department is but one facet of the Participative Representational System -- in short a council composed of members from all occupational groups at all company strata who discuss all plant objectives and problems, big and small, as needed. Results are a space-age company where day-to-day management and company promotion extends vertically and horizontally, where responsibility is shared, staff turnover remains low and the whole operation is a going concern. For these reasons, business researchers and foreign visitors flocked by the hundred to the plant to discuss its participative management. Meanwhile, this ultra-modern Canadian company, where discussion spaces have ousted offices, continues to produce a variety of semi-conductors for the international market which are the foremost obtainable at the present state of the art.